A common project in the north district

As I have mentioned earlier in my blog, I have focused my work in the north region in the Lebanese Red Cross Youth, in addition to follow up the youth center in Balamand, I work with a common activity for the whole north district. The district has three centers, Koura, Balamand and Tripoli. They want to execute this activity because they want all the centers in the north to be more integrated with each other, to share their experiences and knowledge, and get a more collected and strong north.

The background is that they see a big need to collect the children and youth more together. There has been a tendency that children and youth are being separated in to which geographic area they come from, which also often tells you which group or religious belief you belong to. The Red Cross Youth wants to gather them with play and fun, at the same time tell about the Red Cross work, and do recruitment.

The activity is named velo paper, and it is a bike run within a given geographic area, where you bike a road which has been planned by the Red Cross youth volunteers, and where you meet different Red Cross stands on the way, on these stands there will be competitions and it will be told what the Red Cross Youth is. This is going to be executed twice, once in Tripoli and once in Koura. It is planned to be in the end of May, and I sit in the committee with center representatives so together this can be executed in a best way as possible.